I have a weird problem using pageflows. I have a h:commandLink in a datatable that has an action pointing to a transition in a pageflow. When just the action of the commandLink is set, the form never gets submitted and hence my DataModelSelection component is not set. When I throw in an arbitrary actionListener on the commandLink, the form is submitted and all is well. I think I am missing something surely fundamental but can't see it.

When I take out the actionListener, selectedRequest is null, when I put it back in, selectedRequest returns the selected row of the DataModel

Here is the commandLink

<h:commandLink action="viewRequest" actionListener="#{requestEntry.printSelectedRequest}"
value="#{msgs['ServiceRequestList.viewRequest']}"/>

<pageflow-definition
 xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pageflow"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation= "http://jboss.com/products/seam/pageflow http://jboss.com/products/seam/pageflow-1.2.xsd"
 name="serviceRequestCreation">

 <start-page name="addressSearch" view-id="/AddressLookup.xhtml">
 <transition name="viewRequests" to="requestListing"/>
 </start-page>
 <page name="requestListing" view-id="/AddressRequestListing.xhtml">
 <redirect/>
 <transition name="viewRequest" to="serviceRequest"/>
 </page>
 <page name="serviceRequest" view-id="/ServiceRequest.xhtml">
 <redirect/>
 </page>

</pageflow-definition>

@Stateful
@Name("requestEntry")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class RequestEntryAction implements com.stlouiscity.csb.ejb.action.RequestEntry {

 @PersistenceContext(unitName="CSB_Oracle", type=PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
 private EntityManager em;

 @In(create=true)
 private Address address;

 @DataModel("addresses")
 private List<ParcelAddress> addresses;

 @DataModelSelection(value="addresses")
 @Out(required=false)
 private ParcelAddress selectedAddress;

 @DataModel("requests")
 private List<ServiceRequest> requests;

 @DataModelSelection(value="requests")
 private ServiceRequest selectedRequest;

 public RequestEntryAction() {
 }

 public void findAddresses() {
 if (address.getStreetName() != null) {
 System.out.println("Address Is NOT NULL");
 //Find ParcelAddress
 Query q = em.createQuery("Select a From ParcelAddress a Where" +
 " (a.structureAddress.nlc.streetDirection = :streetDirection OR :streetDirection IS NULL) AND" +
 " (lower(a.structureAddress.nlc.streetName) LIKE :street) AND" +
 " (((a.structureAddress.structureAddressPK.houseNumber = :houseNumber) OR" +
 " (:houseNumber BETWEEN a.structureAddress.houseLow AND a.structureAddress.houseHigh)) OR (:houseNumber IS NULL))");
 q.setParameter("houseNumber",address.getHouseNumber());
 q.setParameter("streetDirection",address.getStreetDirection());
 q.setParameter("street",address.getStreetName().toLowerCase() + "%");
 addresses = q.getResultList();
 } else {
 System.out.println("Address IS NULL");
 }
 }

 public void viewRequests() {
 System.out.println("**********Started PageFlow*************");
 findRequests(selectedAddress);
 }

 public void findRequests(ParcelAddress address) {
 System.out.println("**********Entered findRequests*************");
 System.out.println("**********Selected Address: " + address.toString());
 Query q = em.createQuery("Select s From ServiceRequest s Where" +
 " s.parcelAddress.parcelAddressPK.houseNumber = :houseNumber AND" +
 " s.parcelAddress.parcelAddressPK.houseSuffix = :houseSuffix AND" +
 " s.parcelAddress.parcelAddressPK.nlc = :nlc AND" +
 " s.parcelAddress.parcelAddressPK.cityBlock = :cityBlock AND" +
 " s.parcelAddress.parcelAddressPK.parcelNumber = :parcelNumber)");
 q.setParameter("houseNumber", address.getParcelAddressPK().getHouseNumber());
 q.setParameter("houseSuffix", address.getParcelAddressPK().getHouseSuffix());
 q.setParameter("nlc", address.getParcelAddressPK().getNlc());
 q.setParameter("cityBlock", address.getParcelAddressPK().getCityBlock());
 q.setParameter("parcelNumber", address.getParcelAddressPK().getParcelNumber());
 requests = q.getResultList();
 }
 }

 public void printSelectedRequest() {
 System.out.println("Selected Request: " + getSelectedRequest().toString());
 }

 @Remove @Destroy
 public void destroy() {

 }

 public ServiceRequest getSelectedRequest() {
 return selectedRequest;
 }

 public void setSelectedRequest(ServiceRequest selectedRequest) {
 this.selectedRequest = selectedRequest;
 }